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American painter
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (c.1859)
BornPersis Goodale Thurston
(1821-09-28)September 28, 1821
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Died(1906-04-20)April 20, 1906 (aged 84)
Honolulu, Hawaii
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Spouse Townsend Elijah Taylor ​ ​(m. 1847)​

Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (September 28, 1821 – April 20, 1906) was a painter and sketch artist.

Biography

Her parents, Reverend Asa Thurston (1787–1868) and Lucy Goodale Thurston (1795–1876), were in the first company of American Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. When she was four, she had been asked to be given in hānai to Princess Kapulikoliko, daughter of Kamehameha I. Her mother politely refused. The concept of giving a child to be raised by a relative or friend was common in Hawaii, but it horrified the missionaries who preached one doesn't give out their children like puppies.

For three years, she lived in Lahaina, Maui, where she assisted in the work of the seminary press at Lahainaluna School. In 1847, she married Rev. Townsend Elijah Taylor of LaGrange, New York, who was serving as the seaman's chaplain for the Port of Lahaina.

Taylor is best known for her landscapes (two of which were made into engravings at the Lahinaluna seminary) and silhouettes of both missionaries and Hawaiian royalty.

Family tree

Thurston Hawaii family tree
Asa Thurston
(1787–1868)		Lucy Goodale
(1795–1876)		Lorrin Andrews
(1795–1868)		Mary Wilson
William Cornelius Shipman
(1824–1861)		Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor
(1821–1906)		Asa Goodale Thurston
(1827–1859)		Sarah Andrews
(1832–1899)
William Herbert Shipman
(1854–1943)		Margaret Clarissa
Shipman		Lorrin A. Thurston
(1858–1931)		Harriet Elvira Potter
William Twigg-Smith
(1883-1950)		Margaret Carter Thurston
(1895–1976)		Lorrin Potter Thurston
(1899-1984)
Thurston Twigg-Smith
(1921-2016)
Notes:
  1. "TC LIB: Rev. Lorrin Andrews - Missionary to Hawaii". www.tc-lib.org. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. Clark, John R. K. (1985). Beaches of the Big Island. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824809768.
  3. Chaplin, George (1998). Presstime in Paradise: The Life and Times of The Honolulu Advertiser, 1856-1995. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824820329.
  4. Nakaso, Dan (2016-07-16). "Former Honolulu Advertiser publisher Twigg-Smith dies". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
Hawaiian Breadfruit, oil on canvas painting c. 1890

References

  1. Thurston, Brown (1892). Thurston Genealogies. B. Thurston.
  2. Lucy Goodale Thurston (1882). Life and Times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston, wife of Rev. Asa Thurston. S. C. Andrews.
  3. ^ Severson, Don R. (2002). Finding paradise : island art in private collections, Honolulu Academy of Arts. Michael D. Horikawa, Jennifer Saville. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2657-4. OCLC 49553660.
  4. "Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor - Artist Facts". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.

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